I Love You Too Much
08 February 2018Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
ELLE book of the month.
I knew I was in Paris, I knew that was the Seine beneath me, the sky above, but when I looked around for help, the grand apartment buildings of the Quai Voltaire stared back at me, indifferent.
In the sixth arrondissement everything is perfect and everyone is lonely. This is the Paris of thirteen-year-old Paul. Shy and...
Details
08 February 2018417 minutes
9781509895038Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
Funny, waspish, astute, l Love You Too Much is a heart breaking tale.Denise Mina, author of The Long Drop
There’s an elegance to Drake’s writing that marks her out as a writer to be reckoned with and she shows fearlessness as she explores the mind of that most troublesome of creatures, the teenage boy . . . I Love You Too Much is a considerable achievement.John Boyne, Irish Times
There is the most extraordinary sensibility in this book. It is the author's but she gives it to the reader as thirteen year old Paul's out of kilter, isolated, yearning perception. Denied love, this vulnerable boy floats, adrift, through Paris like a lost, living ghost. We see - and feel - through his eyes, and the experience is unsettling, unnerving, strangely delicious. Alicia Drake has achieved something very rare.Tim Pears, author of In the Light of Morning.
The enfant naturel of Henry James’s What Maisie Knew and Deborah Levy’s Swimming HomeAnne Korkeakivi
